(CNN) - Rand Paul, the projected winner of the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky, told his supporters: "I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words: We've come to take our government back."

"Washington is horribly broken," Paul said. "I think we stand on a precipice. We are encountering a day of reckoning. And this movement is a message to Washington … that we're unhappy and we want things done differently."